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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shipton BarrowCountry: England County: Oxfordshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Village: Shipton
Map Ref: SP269155
Latitude: 51.837465N Longitude: 1.610988W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The bronze age barrow is a stone and earth cairn. The burial mound, or Saxon hlaew, is an earth and stone mound constructed in two tiers. There were human bones in the top of the mound which were partially excavated in l976. With them was an iron buckle or the early medieval or dark ages.
The bowl barrow has been reduced by cultivation. A three sided enclosure, of the kind associated with the Saxon hlaew, has an open fourth side including the bronze age barrow. The sides are 63 m. long with a 3m wide and 1m high bank and ditch which is 2m wide. The field layout follows the N and W sides, while the S is levelled by cultivation.
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